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  • From the ground up: RED HORSE Airmen construct new facilities

    As troops continue supporting the responsible drawdown of U.S. servicemembers from Iraq, one unit is busy helping build toward the future of a self-sufficient Iraq by constructing facilities that promote a joint environment. The 557th Expeditionary Rapid Engineer Deployable Heavy Operations Repair

  • Photo essay:E-3 Sentry AWACS departs for combat mission

    An E-3 Sentry Airborne Warning and Control System aircraft taxis out to the runway at an undisclosed location in Southwest Asia on Jan. 16, 2010.The E-3 Sentry is a modified Boeing  707/320 commercial airframe with a rotating radar dome that provides situational awareness of friendly, neutral and

  • Mildenhall students donate to keep Kyrgyz orphans warm

    Try to imagine a sub-zero February in the former Soviet Union. A frozen white field lies ahead, and off in the distance small children are walking to school. As the children steadily come closer, it becomes more and more evident that these little tikes are drudging along without winter jackets, hats

  • Air Force officials announce holiday safety results

    The Air Force had the lowest recorded number of private motor vehicle fatalities during the Thanksgiving-to-New Year's time frame -- one -- to include the lowest number of automobile fatalities -- zero. It was also the first time in 13 years the Air Force did not have a single active-duty death due

  • USAFCENT command chief visits 'The Rock'

    The 386th Air Expeditionary Wing showed the U.S. Air Forces Central Command's senior enlisted leader a warm welcome Jan. 13-15, as he experienced a tour of operations here at an air base affectionately known as "The Rock."This was Chief Master Sgt. Mark Villella's first visit to the base, located in

  • Moving the goods

    The organization and shipment of cargo and personnel is essential to maximizing the airlift capability that is vital to supporting the warfighter on the ground and ensuring the support needed to assist the people of Afghanistan. No one here takes this more seriously than the Airmen of the 455th

  • New AFCENT Band 'Celtic Aire' begins tours

    1/12/2010 - SOUTHWEST ASIA (AFNS) -- The band "Celtic Aire" will perform at various locations in the U.S. Air Forces Central area of responsibility during its two-month tour here. The members are Tech. Sgt. Emily Lewis, violinist/vocalist, Tech. Sgt Julia Brundage, vocalist/drums, Master Sgt. Eric

  • Airman killed, another injured Jan. 3 in Afghanistan

    An Airman assigned to the 10th Air Support Operations Squadron, Fort Riley, Kan., was killed and another injured while supporting combat operations in southern Afghanistan Jan. 3. Senior Airman Bradley R. Smith, 24, of Troy, Ill., died of wounds sustained from the explosion of an improvised